Last quarter we reported on some pretty stellar growth numbers for Android within the global smartphone marketplace. Back then, Google’s OS had a 9.6 percent slice of the pie, but today that’s ballooned to a powerful 17.2 percent, meaning that on the subject of end-user sales over the past three months, Android has nearly matched RIM’s BlackBerry sales. That’s quite the feat considering that a year ago the latter was shifting ten times more units than the former. This fast pace of growth has narrowed down Symbian’s lead at the head, despite Nokia’s favorite OS actually shipping on more phones this year, while the enormous loser of the quarter needs to be Windows Mobile, which contracted both in relation to market share and actual shipments.
Overall, smartphone sales were up by 50 percent year-on-year, in keeping with both Gartner and IDC, while Gartner adds that mobile devices as an entire grew at a tamer 13.3 percent rate. In relation to phone manufacturers’ global share, Nokia and Samsung have held on to their top positions, LG, Sony Ericsson and Motorola have experienced some uncomfortable shrinkage, and HTC, RIM and Apple have capitalized to expand their portions. Looking over to IDC’s smartphone share data shows, again, that every one smartphone makers are growing remarkably well, however it does highlight HTC (129 percent) and Samsung (173 percent) as really improving their presence inside the sector. The rationale? Android, Android, Android.
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